"I think what’s on our 'bucket list' is making it all work every year," Allen recently told The Boot and other reporters. "We love what we do; we loved what we were doing before we ever got a record deal. The awards are just icing on the cake for us ...

"And when you come right down to it, after you’ve had a bunch of hits like we’ve had, but it’s been a while since we’ve had them, when you look at touring, the excitement starts from us," Allen adds. "And if we’re excited about something, our fans pick up on it."

Count a new album among the list of things that the Oaks still have left to achieve; they hint that one is in the works.

"We have some plans in motion to record some new music [in 2017], with a top producer; we’re really hoping that that comes together and happens, and it looks like it just might happen," Bonsall shares. "And a brand-new country album from the Oak Ridge Boys would be really cool; it would be the thing that would get us going in 2017. Even if nothing is a hit, it will get us attention, and, for us, we’ll have new music to sing, and new music always creates new excitement. It would be great for our shows ..."